Feature Article: Optimization for simulation: Theory vs. Practice
INFORMS Journal on Computing
The use of computer simulation to develop hospital systems
ACM SIGSIM Simulation Digest
Simulation model for improving the operation of the emergency department of special health care
Proceedings of the 38th conference on Winter simulation
Agent-based patient admission scheduling in hospitals
Proceedings of the 7th international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems: industrial track
Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization for Dynamic Hospital Resource Management
EMO '09 Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Evolutionary Multi-Criterion Optimization
Towards an Agent-Based Simulation of Hospital Emergency Departments
SCC '09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Services Computing
Simulation optimization for emergency department resources allocation
Proceedings of the Winter Simulation Conference
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This article presents an agent-based modeling and simulation to design a decision support system for healthcare emergency department (ED) to aid in setting up management guidelines to improve it. This ongoing research is being performed by the Research Group in Individual Oriented Modeling at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona with close collaboration of the hospital staff team of Sabadell. The objective of the proposed procedure is to optimize the performance of such complex and dynamic healthcare EDs, which are overcrowded. Exhaustive search optimization is used to find the optimal ED staff configuration, which includes doctors, triage nurses, and admission personnel, i.e., a multi-dimensional and multi-objective problem. An index is proposed to minimize patient stay time in the ED. The model is implemented using NetLogo. The results obtained by using alternatives Monte Carlo and Pipeline schemes are promising. The impact of these schemes to reduce the computational resources used is described.